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According to Webster-Merrian Dictionary, “A Wiki is a website that allows visitors to make corrections, contributions and corrections.” Wikis have changed how people access information in this world now. It allows everyday people the ability to contribute to how information is understood and received. Most people now know what a Wiki is but they don't know how to write a Wiki.

When creating a Wiki article, there is a lot of preparation and steps to follow to guarantee it gets published. Simply writing an article and submitting the work will not be enough to get published. Wiki articles expect photos or extra material to be credited and editors take articles and mold them to how the Wiki program wants the article to be viewed.

In publishing an article in wikiHow, there are steps and guidelines that need to be matched if publishing is the goal. wikiHow is a site dedicated to allowing people to post how to do things and give step by step instructions to get something done. There are millions of different wikiHows, from how to make a recipe to how to build a house. Normal people post articles on the things they are successful at doing to help people who are trying to accomplish the same goals and need assistance. There are many ways to go about communicating the information to people. With wikiHow, the main focus on a step by step basis. You should make your steps direct and to the point about taking a person through how to get something done. It helps keep people from being confused and on track with what their trying to accomplish. Other forms of how people communicate their Wikis is the use of pictures, videos, and gifs to give people a visual reference to how to do steps and accomplish their goals. When using these additional resources, it is important that you credit the person responsible for creating these additional resources. Even if the person who created the article is responsible for the pictures, videos or gifs, wikiHow will not publish the article without accreditation. Wiki also focuses a great deal on trying to keep pages and articles organized and simple. With your step by steps, it is also helps to use the different sections in communicating any additional information that is needed in the how to do. It allows for a simple and clear way for add information like warnings, material you will need to do the wikiHow, or any additional information that doesn't make sense to put into the step by step process. This helps keep the article simple, understandable and practical to use.

To walk through how to go about how to post a wikiHow it's best to keep things organized. It is smart to start out writing out the article normally before even getting into the Wiki page process. Once the article is written, it is important to get secondary resources pictures, gifs and videos together making sure they are properly sized for web use and know who to accredit the pictures to. From there, it is okay to start transferring that information into an online article.

wikiHow has to methods of creating a Wiki article. For people who aren't more computer savvy it has its own step by step process of organizing the article in a quick orderly way. Unfortunately, this method allows for a lot of issues and struggles to get the article to turn out the way you want. The site glitches a lot and when reviewing the articles things show up misplaced and the site can also freeze and it is a must to reset and start over.

The second option is coding the article and writing the article on the back end of the webpage. This option is a lot more involved and takes learning how to properly code for wikiHow article. The resources on wikiHow and on the internet easily allow you to learn the proper way to code your article and inserting your pictures, videos, and etc. are easily to incorporate. It enables you to organize your Wiki article in the fashion you want it. For example, if the article being written is a recipe and the author wants to have a section dedicated to, ingredients and things you will need to use to complete the recipe, and he wants those to be viewed first before his step by step portion of the article coding gives the author more flexibility and speed to organizing his article that way.  We can see this being done in this article about “How to make a Vegetable, Chicken and Egg Scramble." The order is edited to better represent the article.

The ingredients tab has been placed at the top of the page because those are important to know before you get into the step by step portion of the article.

Once the article is completed and set up the way the author wants there are still several things needed to be done still. It is smart to attach links to similar articles to the article being created. This allows for the article to be featured and recommended when people are searching for information related to the subject. Once the article is set up and complete submitting for submission is next. Once submitted the waiting game is on. Editors for wikiHow review and make changes to aspects of the article to make it wikiHow ready and it is published. Once the article is published, others are able to edit the article. Most add steps that help them or make the article more user friendly. It is expected to see the articles evolve and change from the original posted article.

When creating a Wiki article for the first time, there is a lot of work to figure out and steps to successfully publish an article on a Wiki site.  Understanding the proper procedure is most of the work. Once it is known how to get a Wiki published the experience is quick and easy to accomplish. Good luck on your article!